CVE-2026-74604 (GCVE-0-2026-74604)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-22 15:31
Modified
2026-10-16 19:06
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit" Revert commit 030a48b0f6ce ("thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit") that introduced a use-after-free into the error path of thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs() by removing a valid check from it.
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Linux Linux Version: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156
Version: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156
Version: 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156
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